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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- May 6, 2022
- 5 min
Effective future planning is a family affair.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting another prospective client family. An initial meeting is the time for the clients to tell me...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Apr 28, 2022
- 4 min
Think it's hard to catch the Quidditch "Snitch"? Try figuring out which benefits fit you!
In my favorite science fiction TV series, Star Trek, the characters sometimes play a three-dimensional version of chess. In the Harry...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Apr 20, 2022
- 5 min
How to overcome the challenge of obtaining Medicaid eligibility
In the Aesop fable “The Crow and the Pitcher”, a crow drops stones one by one into the neck of a tall, narrow pitcher. Before it dropped...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Apr 14, 2022
- 5 min
If you receive SSI or SSDI, it is crucial to track and report your income!
Here in greater Chicago, and (I expect in many other densely urban settings) we frequently think of distance in terms of time. When I am...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Apr 5, 2022
- 5 min
Why you might want to be part of a "special group of former SSI recipients".
“Former” can signify respect—“Former president”, or “Former Olympic athlete”. Or nostalgia—“Former member of the rock band Journey” or...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
The importance of being early:
The plot of the Oscar Wilde comedic play “The Importance of being Earnest” revolves around the romantic advantages that accrue to a...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Mar 23, 2022
- 6 min
529, ABLE or both for your child with a disability?
When my sons are not playing video games, they like things with wheels. Last summer, we got them larger mountain-type bicycles. They...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Mar 16, 2022
- 4 min
Supported decision-making is now a legal process in Illinois. Just what is it?
The word “guardian” in the popular lexicon has both positive and negative connotations. The “Guardians of the Galaxy,” in the Marvel...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Mar 7, 2022
- 5 min
Your heart should react. Your financial plan should not.
Horrifying pictures of dead children on hospital stretchers, covered with blood-soaked sheets. Disturbing photos of burnt-out...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Jan 20, 2022
- 5 min
Make the transition years count for your student with a disability
As a financial and benefits planner for people with disabilities and their families, I am excited when clients first come to work with...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
How you save for retirement now affects your future financial and tax health
My late grandmother once said: “They didn’t have cholesterol when I was a girl!” in response to some family member trying to discourage...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Nov 5, 2021
- 4 min
It takes a team to make your financial plan successful
Before I worked as a financial planner, I was the executive director of L’Arche Chicago, the small local chapter of an international...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Oct 28, 2021
- 6 min
It is easiest to apply for Social Security and Medicaid immediately at age 18
Every time I use a certain gas station near my children’s school, I am prompted to scan my rewards card. Since I don’t have one, I am...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Oct 1, 2021
- 4 min
Your pension might reduce the Social Security benefits that your adult child receives
My own children as well as some of the students that I teach are getting excited for Halloween. Besides free candy, the attraction of...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Sep 17, 2021
- 5 min
A good DSP (Direct Support Professional) is a valuable find
September 12-18, 2021 is Direct Support Professionals’ (DSPs’) week. If you are a person with a disability, who needs support or are the...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Aug 25, 2021
- 5 min
The challenge of counting earned, unearned and in-kind income for Social Security purposes
Although I probably found him a bit frightening as a toddler, one of my favorite Sesame Street characters, in reminiscence, is Count von...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Aug 16, 2021
- 5 min
Medicaid Waivers: A (Partial) Backstory
I am a big fan of Star Trek and have watched every series from the reruns of the original series that fueled my childhood imagination to...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Aug 6, 2021
- 5 min
Some long and winding roads...to Medicaid eligibility
The “Rerouting” function on my GPS is alternatively really helpful and impossible. Sometimes, when I miss a turn or misinterpret a step,...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
Several roads lead to Medicaid eligibility
When they bike, my kids conflate “shortcut” with “alternate route”. I have given up explaining that if you start at the same place, end...
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